CHP candidate Nuri Arslan competed against AKP candidate Zeynel Abidin Okul, and was eventually elected as deputy mayor of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. ANF ISTANBUL Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 19:16 Following the arrest of Istanbul ...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner from Ilam Province, has written an open letter to human rights organisations, urging them to intervene and stop the imminent execution of his amputation sentence, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) ...

Despite a ceasefire declared unilaterally by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Turkish army continues to escalate their attacks on the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). The press center of the ...

The United Nations Human Rights Office has issued a statement on the police crackdowns and arrests in connection with the protests over the arrest of Ekrem Imamoğlu, the now-dismissed mayor of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. ...

Kamran Kazemi, a 38-year-old Kurdish man from Kermanshah, died in suspicious circumstances at the Criminal Investigation Department detention centre in Orumiyeh (Urmia), the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported. While police officials have attributed his ...

On March 26th, the final verdict of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) 54th session on Rojava vs. Turkey was presented at a special event in the European Parliament. This landmark judgement arrives at a pivotal ...

A delegation of the DEM Party and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) is visiting Sulaymaniyah to hold a series of meetings with political parties and civil society organizations in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). The delegation includes ...

Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, hosted a Newroz reception organised by the London-based Centre for Kurdish Progress. The reception was attended by the Kurdish People’s Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee, MSD (Syrian Democratic ...

Former member of Ergani Municipal Council Ceylan Aslan was sentenced to 8 years in prison on alleged charges of “being a member of an illegal organization”, meaning the PKK. ANF AMED Wednesday, 26 March 2025, ...

In Bolu Prison, the release of 33 political prisoners—almost all of whom are serving life or aggravated life sentences and have completed 30 years of incarceration— is being blocked by the Prison Administration and Monitoring ...